Western Pa. women played pivotal roles in passage of 19th Amendment a century ago
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Officers of the National Woman’s Party hold a banner with a Susan B. Anthony quote in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C., in June 1920.
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Demonstrators hold a rally for women’s suffrage in New York in September 1916. The Seneca Falls convention in 1848 is widely viewed as the launch of the women’s suffrage movement, yet women didn’t gain the right to vote until ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.
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Head of suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., Mar. 3, 1913.
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Alice Paul, chair of the National Woman’s Party, unfurls a banner on Aug, 19, 1920, from a balcony at the NWP’s headquarters in Washington after the ratification of the
19th Ammendment.
